...the hour...

interlude
midnight be the hour
deep be the dark
indigo shadows
call to the morning light.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Midnight, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

This Night Enfolded

this midnight hour
a silken sapphire cloak
sumptuous and inviting be its folds
beckoned I am to night's chamber
enfolded I be to bear its beauty.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Enfolded, Watercolor (modified), Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.